It was a single-family house “overgrown with trees” that he had built with a lifetime of effort, as he emphasized in the newspaper On Time. “I am shocked. It was a beautiful single-family house with a garden overgrown with trees. It was completely burned from the moment the fire broke out, but I found out yesterday because there was no accessibility. My paradise is gone, where Eleonora used to come and it was our retreat“ the musician said initially.
Subsequently, he described what was inside the house that was lost to the flames.
Among other things, Giannis Zouganelis said: “I had everything inside. An organized house that I built with a lifetime of effort. It included musical instruments, family photos, all beloved things that turned to ashes. I also had a painting of great financial and emotional value, a work by Fotis Kontoglu, which I had left here because I believed it was protected. That too became ashes along with everything else.”
“It was a wonderful retreat”
Regarding the emotional value that his “retreat” in Varnava had and the cost of his loss, he added: “It was a wonderful retreat in the green and now you see only blackness and ashes. I am not saddened by my loss, but I feel sorrow for the losses of people who have struggled—some from their scarcity and others from their abundance—to create something and saw it destroyed in an instant.”
Finally, he expressed his anger, shock, and pain after the devastation caused by the fires.